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[mengyan]

花琉璃轶闻 | royal rumours + even MORE textposts

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Liu Xu | The Double

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The Double 墨雨云间 (2024) Dir. Bai Yun Mo, Lu Hao Ji Ji, Ma Shi Ge – Ep. 10

[storge]

I thought you were like them who bully the weak and fear the strong, but you have some principles. It makes me want to know you better.

The Double (2024) 1.08

[namjhyun]

DRAMA REVIEW | The Double (2024)

For starters, this was a great watch. The production value was outstanding, the clothing design beautiful and the performances exactly what you want from this kind of revenge story, which is subtle and over the top at the same time, somehow. The music and editing could be better but they didn't stop me from enjoying this drama.

The main characters are smart, deadly and flirty. Their friends and family members a perfect fold for their cunning ways.

Wu Jin Yan and Wang Xingyue have an explosive chemistry. It's unreal. Every scene they had together got me giddy with excitement.

The villains were not your typical and I found myself equally invested in the part they had to play in this story. Their ending was befitting to their respective arcs and retribution sweet.

It's my first time watching a drama where Li Meng stars in but I am damn impressed by her. She's a powerhouse and I will be looking forward to her future projects.

This is also the kind of drama where nobody is safe and I commend the script writer for going there when so many other don't. That said, if you are going to kill a major character, you can't have a lukewarm resolution.

I have spent the better part of the last hour reading and watching every interview the director, cast and crew gave about this drama because when I finished it watching I was pissed.

This might be controversial because I know this is a well loved drama, hell, I loved watching this drama but what was the director thinking changing the script of the final episode and leaving the story as an open ending? Viewers spent 40 episodes, invested in this characters, hoping for them to have a happy ending, only to be met with a final scene that can be interpreted as reality or wishful thinking. Leaning more on the latter.

A revenge story it's not something you leave open ended. And, yes, I know there's an epilogue and I think it should be part of the final episode not something you release just in case fans might be angry at what you did. This is so unserious, I am lacking words.

This drama was a solid 8 for entertainment and production value until that ghastly final scene, forcing me to drop a full number. They should have known better... and they did. Why release an epilogue if they didn't?

Rating: 7/10

[sonderwrit]

Zhao Jiamin in costume from Scent of Time.

一步错步步错，终究是黄粱一梦。 "One wrong step after another, in the end it was just a yellow millet dream."

[chineseredcarpet]

Zhao Jiamin for AREA

[lostinadrama]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 (2024)

[dingyuxi]

ZHAO YIQIN and ZHAO JIAMIN for Deling Magazine x 许你万丈光芒 (2023)

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'The Dangerous Lover' posters

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Minmin is done 🙃 get her out of here!

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The Princess Royal | 2024

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The Double 墨雨云间 (2024) Dir. Bai Yun Mo, Lu Hao Ji Ji, Ma Shi Ge – Ep. 7

[plumdepan]

The 100-year-old rabbit sprit 7/?

As announced previously, this post will be focused on Yixuan’s past.

First of all, who is she?

(From Duan Yixuan's Weibo account)

Yixuan is a fox spirit, as well as the nemesis of the rabbit spirit. They often quarrel, but most of the time, Yixuan is the one looking for trouble.

She holds a grudge on the rabbit spirit for a precise reason: years ago, Yixuan's sister Qiuru admired the rabbit spirit a lot, to the point of falling in love.

(Wang Qiuru. Screenshot from SNH48's official YouTube channel)

Unfortunately for her, her feelings were unrequited. Soon after, she disappeared.

Even though, in Yixuan’s mind, it looked like the rabbit spirit was responsible for this, she later learns the truth about her sister’s disappearance. It appears that the persons responsible are the gods… and Jiamin.

During this time, Jiamin was not yet ‘co-existing’ with the rabbit spirit. After Tianyang’s betrayal, she was expected to marry Yuling. But Qiuru intervened. This is the help mentioned in the second post!

When Yixuan learns the truth, her vengeance includes Jiamin, too. Since the latter went back to a pretty normal life after the sealing of the rabbit spirit, Yixuan takes advantage of the situation and uses a snake (a lesser spirit) to control Jiamin as she wishes and turns her against Ning Ke.

Yixuan doesn’t have any good reason to also hold a grudge on Ning Ke. She just wants to ruin her relation with Jiamin. In Yixuan’s mind, Qiuru sacrificed herself for their happiness, but neither Jiamin nor Ning Ke is aware of it.

However, Ning Ke won’t let Yixuan continue 👀

[moviesandmania]

GHOST IN BARBER'S (2016) Review and free to watch on YouTube

Ghost in Barber’s is a 2016 Chinese horror film directed by Shilei Lu (Haunted Dormitory: Marionette Teacher). The Film Moon production stars Jiamin Chen, Sung Goo Kang and Qing’an Ren. Plot: A series of mysterious murders occur in a supposedly haunted barber’s house. Was it really supernatural forces or was it actually real people behind the murders? Reviews: “This ridiculous film about a ghost…